interactions between unlike organisms

Due to an impending deadline, I am unable to write a blog that would make any sense at present but wanted to let you know that I haven’t gone anywhere and intend to return later in the week. Here are some newsy things I’m not going to talk about today:

1. Urban foxes. Exasperating. For today, my only comment is this (as noted on Twitter earlier in the week): if a dog injures a child, the individual dog (or sometimes, its owners) are blamed. If a fox injures a child, the entire species is a ‘menace’. What’s that all about?